Hayley Izzard

I was really interested to watch a final solo piece of an MA programme, just to see what kind of work was involved if I wanted to progress down that route in the future. With the title 'Body Stories', it didn't really give me much clue as to what theme the piece could have, it could have been about anything but just have a huge emphasis on exaggerated body movement. The start of the piece where she had a scarf and was familiarising herself with the scarf reminded me of past IPP performances that I've watched. I interpreted the piece as expressing negative emotion, it was a bit hazy for me as to what she was expressing, whether it was depression, being controlled or some sort of mental illness. I loved her repetitive movements everytime the song hit a particular moment in the track, it was really effective and emphasised that she was maybe trapped or kept to a boundary. When talking to her after the show, her inspiration was totally different to how I interpreted t...

To generate ideas for my 'Transformation' project, I wanted to add some personal experience to my movement piece, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to show my journey of my experiences at University so far. There's been so many ups and downs, and it would be an easy way of showing this comparison. Using levels to show the highs and lows, and using theatrical practice to display the emotion. These movements are displaying my emotions at the start of this course, like I was hitting a wall and finding it hard to break through mentally, and how I manage to break free. This movement was created when exploring with the score of 'battling with myself''. These are just sneak peeks of the performance I've done so far, any feedback?

Stimulus or Object? For my IPP1 project, I have to create a dance theatre solo based on my personal experiences, feelings, objects that interest me or whatever i want to develop it to be. An object or stimulus for movement,(I'm not quite sure of what its uses will be at the moment) I've been thinking of is a really nice setting that i saw for when i went to see Spring Awakening at the Belgrade Theatre. The main setting were some cut out trees that would show a projected image when each scene went on, for example, for a library scene there would be an image of bookshelves to blend in and at the house a kitchen would show on these trees. A great lighting trick, so clever and abstract. Yesterday when i went shopping, i went into Topshop and found a very similar version of the trees that would show what I'm trying to explain. As I was thinking into this concept, I thought i could use the idea of transformation and explore that somehow, or i could ev...